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With âEvery Breath You Takeâ audiences are expecting a good psychological thriller in the mode of âCape Fear,â but instead we get Casey Affleck playing another sad, despondent character grieving over the loss of a child like in âManchester By the Sea.â âRaw, drained, and acute,â one moviegoer described his performance.
Film Inquiry is more generous, terming it âan intriguing character study that examines grief and loneliness while infusing intensity and thrills.â
Sure, thereâs psychological tension and a twisty breath-taking ending â but most movie reviewers werenât buying it. They scored it a dismal 19% on Rotten Tomatoes.
RogerEbert.com sums it up this way: “Director Vaughn Stein, working from a script by David Murray, makes a hash out of elements of Scorsese’s ‘Cape Fear,’ Adrian Lyne’s ‘Fatal Attraction.’ Lyne’s ‘Unfaithful,’ and Demme’s ‘The Silence of the Lambs.’”
New Movies to Watch This Week: In the Earth, Beast Beast, We Broke Up, Hope
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With traditional release patterns still in turmoil as Hollywood and the world adjusts to the pandemic, it can be intimidating to keep up with when and where new films are being released but the truth is, there are more movies coming out each week now than ever before. It’s just a question of where to look.
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Variety help you find that next well-earned bit of escapism, whether it’s a Milla Jovovich stunt spectacular (like “The Rookies”) or a sexy Japanese manga adaptation (à la “Ride or Die” on Netflix). Here’s a rundown of those films opening this week that
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Godzilla (left) battles Kong in Gozilla vs. Kong. (Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures)
Fans of the MonsterVerse series, rejoice! The much-anticipated blockbuster Godzilla vs. Kong, a colossal showdown between the two titular titans, comes to life on the big screen and streaming services. The sci-fi action-thriller stars Alexander Skarsgård, Millie Bobby Brown, Rebecca Hall and Kaylee Hottle as an expedition team tasked to find a Herculean source of energy in Earth s middle core.
The psychological thriller Every Breath You Take also makes a splash this weekend, in which Casey Affleck plays Dr. Phillip Clark, a well-known psychiatrist suddenly propelled into a psychopath s (Sam Claflin) world of delusion and vengeance. Surprisingly, little did Dr. Clark know that his wife (Michelle Monaghan) and their teenage daughter, Lucy (India Eisley), are also objects of the madman s ire.